Hey guys!
If there's any fans of strategy gaming here who've always wanted to play a Babylon 5 galaxy conquer strategy game then I've gotta recommend Babylon 5 mod for good old Civilization 4. I'm not allowed to post links, videos or cool images so I'll just have to talk about it instead and try not to put people to sleep hahaha.
There's a lot of great B5 cockpit simulator games and mods out there and there's some good RTS mods too however I've always been more of a large scale TBS gamer so I've dreamed of the chance to conquer the galaxy of the B5 universe. Last year I finally got my chance when a fan of my Babylon 5 Games website list (which I posted about in this forum last year) told me I was missing the B5 Civ4 mod. I was like 'WAT???' as I'm a huge Civ player so I was horrified that I didn't know about this mod lol. It cleverly uses the existing Final Frontier mod for Civ 4 that converts the whole game into a space based Master of Orion style experience. I love Orion as well so instead of just plonking it in my B5 website tribute list and leaving it I knew I actually had to try this one.
So I tried it out and next thing I knew 3 months of my life had vanished lmao. For a turn based strategy gamer like me who’s always wanted to play a sandbox game as the Earth alliance colonising planets and conquering the galaxy with Hyperions, Omegas & Warlocks it was just a dream come true!! It's pretty tough though as the raider, drakh and shadow attacks are relentless all while you're trying to compete with the other major races! The creator has plans to add huge battle scenarios (separate to the sandbox game much like the famous Star Trek Civ 4 mod), and he wants to have playable Shadows & Vorlons too. Unfortunately he’s the only one left working on the project now and he has limited C++ coding/graphics skills so progress is slow. Hopefully he doesn't abandon it! If anyone here has some skills feel free to drop him a line!
Sadly I have no graphical or programming skills so I couldn't help him either but I did help him fix up his forum and sourceforge page as he's not very good with website stuff and it was least I could do for the happiness his mod had brought me. I was going through a bit of a rough patch last year (stressful job & breakup blah blah blah) so discovering his mod and having so much darn fun with it was perfect timing. In fact it touched me so much I decided to make a video series tour of the mod where I show off lots of ships & battles and ramble on for like an hour about how much i loved it haha.
If anyone wants to check it out just google 'Babylon 5 Civ 4' and around the top results you should see the sourceforge page and maybe a few of my youtube video tours of the mod. Civ 4 is pretty cheap on steam these days.. not sure if it's on gog though!